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<span class=large>THE BOOK OF MOSIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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King Benjamin continues his address—The Lord Omnipotent shall minister among men in a tabernacle of clay—Blood shall come from every pore as he atones for the sins of the world—His is the only name whereby salvation comes—Men can put off the natural man and become saints through the atonement—The torment of the wicked shall be as a lake of fire and brimstone.  About 124 <span class='small'>B.C.</span>
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And</span> again my brethren, I would call your attention, for I have somewhat more to speak unto you; for behold, I have things to tell you concerning that which is to come.
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And the things which I shall tell you are made known unto me by an <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/2a" mark="a" type="C" title="Mosiah 4: 1; Mosiah 5: 5; TG Angels.">angel</a> from God.  And he said unto me: <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Zech. 4: 1 (1-2).">Awake</a>; and I awoke, and behold he stood before me.
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And he said unto me: Awake, and hear the words which I shall tell thee; for behold, I am come to declare unto you the <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 52: 7 (7-10); Luke 2: 10 (10-11); Rom. 10: 15; D&C 31: 3.">glad</a> tidings of great <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Joy.">joy</a>.
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For the Lord hath heard thy prayers, and hath judged of thy <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>, and hath sent me to declare unto thee that thou mayest rejoice; and that thou mayest declare unto thy people, that they may also be filled with joy.
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For behold, the time cometh, and is not far distant, that with power, the <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ—Jehovah.">Lord</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/5b" mark="b" type="C" title="Rev. 1: 8 (7-8); TG Jesus Christ, Power of.">Omnipotent</a> who <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Authority of.">reigneth</a>, who was, and is from all <sup>d</sup><a href="mosiah/3/5d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Ne. 26: 12; Mosiah 16: 15.">eternity</a> to all eternity, shall come down from heaven among the children of men, and shall dwell in a <sup>e</sup><a href="mosiah/3/5e" mark="e" type="A" title="Mosiah 7: 27; Mosiah 15: 2 (1-7); Alma 7: 9 (9-13).">tabernacle</a> of clay, and shall go forth amongst men, working mighty <sup>f</sup><a href="mosiah/3/5f" mark="f" type="C" title="Matt. 4: 24 (23-24); Matt. 9: 35; Acts 2: 22; 1 Ne. 11: 31; TG Death, Power over; TG Healing; TG Miracle.">miracles</a>, such as healing the sick, raising the dead, causing the lame to walk, the <sup>g</sup><a href="mosiah/3/5g" mark="g" type="A" title="Matt. 9: 28 (28-31); Matt. 20: 30 (30-34); John 9: 1 (1-4); 3 Ne. 17: 9 (7-10); D&C 84: 69.">blind</a> to receive their sight, and the deaf to hear, and curing all manner of diseases.
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And he shall cast out <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mark 1: 34 (32-34); 1 Ne. 11: 31.">devils</a>, or the <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Spirits, Evil or Unclean.">evil</a> spirits which dwell in the hearts of the children of men.
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And lo, he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/7a" mark="a" type="C" title="Luke 12: 50; TG Suffering.">suffer</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Temptation of; TG Temptation.">temptations</a>, and pain of body, <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/7c" mark="c" type="A" title="Matt. 4: 2 (1-2).">hunger</a>, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can <sup>d</sup><a href="mosiah/3/7d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 19: 16 (15-18).">suffer</a>, except it be unto death; for behold, <sup>e</sup><a href="mosiah/3/7e" mark="e" type="A" title="Matt. 26: 39 (38-39); Luke 22: 44.">blood</a> cometh from every pore, so great shall be his <sup>f</sup><a href="mosiah/3/7f" mark="f" type="A" title="Isa. 53: 4 (4-5).">anguish</a> for the wickedness and the abominations of his people.
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And he shall be called <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Foreordination; TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about.">Jesus</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Messiah.">Christ</a>, the <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="Mosiah 15: 3; Alma 7: 10; 3 Ne. 1: 14.">Son</a> of God, the <sup>d</sup><a href="mosiah/3/8d" mark="d" type="A" title="Mosiah 15: 4; Hel. 14: 12; 3 Ne. 9: 15; Ether 4: 7.">Father</a> of heaven and earth, the <sup>e</sup><a href="mosiah/3/8e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Creator.">Creator</a> of all things from the beginning; and his <sup>f</sup><a href="mosiah/3/8f" mark="f" type="A" title="Matt. 1: 16; 1 Ne. 11: 18 (14-21).">mother</a> shall be called Mary.
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And lo, he cometh unto his own, that <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Mission of.">salvation</a> might come unto the children of men even through <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Faith.">faith</a> on his name; and even after all this they shall consider him a man, and say that he hath a <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="Luke 11: 15 (14-22); John 8: 48; John 12: 37; Hel. 13: 26 (26-27).">devil</a>, and shall <sup>d</sup><a href="mosiah/3/9d" mark="d" type="A" title="Luke 18: 31; 1 Ne. 11: 33; 2 Ne. 10: 3.">scourge</a> him, and shall <sup>e</sup><a href="mosiah/3/9e" mark="e" type="C" title="1 Ne. 19: 10 (10, 13); 2 Ne. 6: 9; 3 Ne. 11: 14 (14-15, 33); TG Jesus Christ, Crucifixion of.">crucify</a> him.
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And he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Resurrection.">rise</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 25: 13; Hel. 14: 20 (20-27).">third</a> day from the dead; and behold, he standeth to <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Judge.">judge</a> the world; and behold, all these things are done that a righteous judgment might come upon the children of men.
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For behold, and also his <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Blood, Symbolism of.">blood</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Redeemer; TG Redemption.">atoneth</a> for the sins of those who have <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Fall of Man.">fallen</a> by the transgression of Adam, who have died not knowing the <sup>d</sup><a href="mosiah/3/11d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG God, Will of.">will</a> of God concerning them, or who have <sup>e</sup><a href="mosiah/3/11e" mark="e" type="C" title="Lev. 4: 13 (13-35); Num. 15: 27 (2-29); 2 Ne. 9: 26 (25-26); Alma 9: 16 (15-16); Alma 42: 21; 3 Ne. 6: 18; TG Accountability; TG Ignorance.">ignorantly</a> sinned.
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But wo, wo unto him who knoweth that he <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/12a" mark="a" type="C" title="Mosiah 2: 37 (36-38); Hel. 8: 25 (24-25); TG Rebellion.">rebelleth</a> against God!  For salvation cometh to none such except it be through repentance and faith on the <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Lord.">Lord</a> Jesus Christ.
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And the Lord God hath sent his holy <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prophets, Mission of.">prophets</a> among all the children of men, to declare these things to every kindred, nation, and tongue, that thereby whosoever should believe that Christ should come, the same might receive <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Remission of Sins.">remission</a> of their sins, and rejoice with exceedingly great joy, even <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Ne. 25: 26 (24-27); Jarom 1: 11; Mosiah 16: 6.">as</a> though he had already come among them.
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Yet the Lord God saw that his people were a <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/14a" mark="a" type="C" title="2 Ne. 25: 28; Alma 9: 31; TG Stiffneckedness.">stiffnecked</a> people, and he appointed unto them a <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 1: 8; Mosiah 13: 29 (29-32); Alma 25: 15 (15-16); D&C 41: 5 (4-5).">law</a>, even the <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Law of Moses.">law</a> of Moses.
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And many signs, and wonders, and <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Types of, in Anticipation; TG Passover; TG Symbolism.">types</a>, and shadows showed he unto them, concerning his coming; and also holy prophets spake unto them concerning his coming; and yet they <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Hardheartedness.">hardened</a> their hearts, and understood not that the <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="Heb. 10: 1; Mosiah 12: 31; Mosiah 13: 28 (27-32); Alma 25: 16.">law</a> of Moses availeth nothing <sup>d</sup><a href="mosiah/3/15d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Ne. 11: 6.">except</a> it were through the <sup>e</sup><a href="mosiah/3/15e" mark="e" type="A" title="Lev. 4: 20; Matt. 26: 54 (51-56).">atonement</a> of his blood.
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And even if it were possible that little <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Conceived in Sin.">children</a> could sin they could not be saved; but I say unto you they are <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Salvation of Little Children.">blessed</a>; for behold, as in Adam, or by nature, they fall, even so the blood of Christ <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/16c" mark="c" type="C" title="Moro. 8: 8 (8-9); Moses 6: 54 (54-56); TG Jesus Christ, Atonement through.">atoneth</a> for their sins.
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And moreover, I say unto you, that there shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 4: 12 (10-12); 2 Ne. 31: 21; Mosiah 4: 8 (7-8); 3 Ne. 9: 17.">no</a> other name given nor any other way nor means whereby <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/17b" mark="b" type="C" title="Matt. 7: 14 (13-14); TG Jesus Christ, Savior; TG Salvation, Plan of.">salvation</a> can come unto the children of men, only in and through the name of Christ, the <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Lord.">Lord</a> Omnipotent.
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For behold he judgeth, and his judgment is just; and the infant perisheth not that dieth in his infancy; but men drink <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 11: 29.">damnation</a> to their own souls except they humble themselves and <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 18: 3.">become</a> as little children, and believe that <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/18c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Salvation.">salvation</a> was, and is, and is to come, in and through the <sup>d</sup><a href="mosiah/3/18d" mark="d" type="A" title="Mosiah 4: 2; Hel. 5: 9.">atoning</a> blood of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19a" mark="a" type="C" title="Gen. 8: 21; 1 Cor. 2: 14 (11-14); 2 Pet. 2: 12; Mosiah 16: 3; Alma 41: 11; Ether 3: 2; TG Man, Natural, Not Spiritually Reborn; TG Worldliness.">natural</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Mortality.">man</a> is an <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19c" mark="c" type="C" title="James 4: 4; TG Enemies.">enemy</a> to God, and has been from the <sup>d</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Fall of Man.">fall</a> of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he <sup>e</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19e" mark="e" type="A" title="2 Chr. 30: 8; Rom. 6: 13 (12-14).">yields</a> to the enticings of the Holy <sup>f</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19f" mark="f" type="C" title="Rom. 8: 4 (1-9); TG Guidance, Divine.">Spirit</a>, and <sup>g</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19g" mark="g" type="A" title="Alma 19: 6.">putteth</a> off the <sup>h</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19h" mark="h" type="A" title="Col. 3: 9; D&C 67: 12.">natural</a> man and becometh a <sup>i</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19i" mark="i" type="C" title="Luke 22: 32 (31-38); TG Man, New, Spiritually Reborn; TG Saints; TG Spirituality.">saint</a> through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a <sup>j</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19j" mark="j" type="A" title="Matt. 18: 3; 1 Pet. 2: 2 (1-3); 3 Ne. 9: 22.">child</a>, <sup>k</sup><a href="mosiah/3/19k" mark="k" type="B" title="TG Self-mastery; TG Submissiveness.">submissive</a>, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.
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And moreover, I say unto you, that the time shall come when the <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 3: 16.">knowledge</a> of a <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Savior.">Savior</a> shall spread throughout <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/20c" mark="c" type="C" title="Mosiah 16: 1; TG Missionary Work.">every</a> nation, kindred, tongue, and people.
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And behold, when that time cometh, none shall be found <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/21a" mark="a" type="C" title="Col. 1: 22; D&C 4: 2; TG Accountability.">blameless</a> before God, except it be little children, only through repentance and faith on the name of the Lord God Omnipotent.
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And even at this time, when thou shalt have taught thy people the things which the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, even then are they found no more blameless in the sight of God, only according to the words which I have spoken unto thee.
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And now I have spoken the words which the Lord God hath commanded me.
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And thus saith the Lord: They shall stand as a bright testimony against this people, at the judgment day; whereof they shall be judged, every man according to his <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/24a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Good Works.">works</a>, whether they be good, or whether they be evil.
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And if they be evil they are consigned to an awful <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 14, 46; Alma 5: 18; Alma 11: 43; Alma 12: 15 (14-15).">view</a> of their own guilt and abominations, which doth cause them to shrink from the presence of the Lord into a state of <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="Rom. 3: 16; Morm. 8: 38.">misery</a> and <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/25c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Punishment.">endless</a> torment, from whence they can no more return; therefore they have drunk damnation to their own souls.
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Therefore, they have drunk out of the <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 75: 8; Jer. 25: 15; Lam. 4: 21.">cup</a> of the wrath of God, which justice could no more deny unto them than it could deny that <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="Morm. 9: 12; Moro. 8: 8.">Adam</a> should fall because of his partaking of the forbidden <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/26c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 3: 6; 2 Ne. 2: 15 (15-19); Alma 12: 22 (21-23).">fruit</a>; therefore, <sup>d</sup><a href="mosiah/3/26d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Mercy.">mercy</a> could have claim on them no more forever.
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And their <sup>a</sup><a href="mosiah/3/27a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hell.">torment</a> is as a <sup>b</sup><a href="mosiah/3/27b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 16; Jacob 6: 10; Alma 12: 17; D&C 76: 36.">lake</a> of fire and brimstone, whose flames are unquenchable, and whose smoke ascendeth up <sup>c</sup><a href="mosiah/3/27c" mark="c" type="A" title="Mosiah 5: 5.">forever</a> and ever.  Thus hath the Lord commanded me.  Amen.
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